Taylor Swift concert film smashes Australian box office
The pop megastar‘s film made an estimated $3.8 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend.
Taylor Swift has won the weekend box office in Australia with her concert film, The Eras Tour.
The film took $3.8 million in its opening weekend, topping The Exorcist: Believer in its second weekend ($674,000) and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie ($508,000). It is the 13th biggest opening film of the year.
The PG-13 rated film, which was directed by Sam Wrench and has a close to three-hour run time, was filmed over three nights in August at SoFI Stadium in California and cost around $23 million to make.
The film debuted at movie theatres in North America with an estimated three-day gross of $US97 million ($150 million) in ticket sales according to the American movie theatre chain AMC Theatres.
Taylor Swift: The Eras tour is now the highest-grossing concert film of all time, smashing the previous record-holder, Paramount Picture’s 2011 film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, which made $US41 million ($64 million) over its opening weekend.
Swift, who produced the film, bypassed the Hollywood studio system to distribute the film, striking a direct deal with AMC, the largest exhibition company in the United States.
The pop megastar will bring her Eras tour to Australia in February 2024, playing five dates across Sydney and Melbourne.
Another — and the best ever — concert film will hit cinemas in Australia next month, with Madman entertainment distributing a 4k remastered version of the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense, in celebration of its 40th anniversary.
Stop Making Sense will also screen on Tuesday, October 17 as part of the inaugural SXSW Sydney.
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